Sentences with phrase «at high latitudes in»

Returning to the comparison of UAH TLT anomalies and GISTEMP LOTI, I've widened the range of the contours to help show the differences at high latitudes in the Northern Hemisphere.

I have suggested that this approach could be flawed as the real world weights vary with both season and latitude, particularly at high latitudes in Winter.

A full understanding of the relationships of the fauna of the ESR vents with those elsewhere will only be realised with complete analyses of the fauna collected at 56 ° S and 60 ° S at the ESR, and the location and documentation of further hydrothermal vent communities at high latitudes in the Southern Ocean and southern Pacific, Atlantic, and Indian Oceans.

Even so, a major US solar thermal power company has teamed up with a Chinese power equipment manufacturer to push the limits of concentrating solar power at high latitudes in China.

For the month shown, an exception occurs for snow - covered regions at high latitudes in the northern hemisphere.

Baker - Austin, C., J. A. Trinanes, N. G. H. Taylor, R. Hartnell, A. Siitonen, and J. Martinez - Urtaza, 2012: Emerging Vibrio risk at high latitudes in response to ocean warming.

Increases in precipitation at high latitudes in both seasons are very consistent across models.

At these high latitudes in the winter, where a significant wamring has been reported, the warm bias results in an overstatement of the warming.

Baker - Austin, C., J. A. Trinanes, N. G. H. Taylor, R. Hartnell, A. Siitonen, and J. Martinez - Urtaza, 2012: Emerging Vibrio risk at high latitudes in response to ocean warming.

The research team used data from over 100 individual magnetometers located at high latitudes in the northern hemisphere.

The largest decreases have occurred at the highest latitudes in both hemispheres because of the large winter / spring depletion in polar regions.

Not exact matches

As the US military's attention shifts back to great - power competition, particular focus is being paid to the potential for conflict in the extreme conditions found at northern latitudes and higher elevations.

The air pressure atop Mount McKinley is lower than is found at the same elevation on other high mountains in temperate latitudes.

Still, because organisms at northern latitudes have evolved in a world of high ozone, «they may be susceptible to even a few percent increase in UV,» Newman says.

«Marine animals live longer at high latitudes: Hhigh - latitude bivalves live longer and grow slower than those in the tropics.»

Previous work by Hook using satellite data indicated that many lake temperatures were warming faster than air temperature and that the greatest warming was observed at high latitudes, as seen in other climate warming studies.

Most of the protocamels that lived at lower latitudes in North America had teeth with high crowns suitable for grazing, says Mary Dawson, a paleontologist at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, who was not involved with the work.

And at high global latitudes, cold lakes normally covered by ice in the winter are seeing less ice year after year — a change that could affect all parts of the food web, from algae to freshwater seals.

This is especially true for lakes at high latitudes that are covered in ice each winter but may see less ice as temperatures rise.

Skin color varies among human populations and is thought to be under selection, with light skin maximizing vitamin D production at higher latitudes and dark skin providing UV protection in equatorial zones.

«Plastic litter taints the sea surface, even in the Arctic: For the first time, researchers survey litter on sea surface at such high latitudes.»

An 17O excess up to 7.5 per mil was observed in summer at high northern latitudes.

The effects of rising temperatures in Finland and other countries at higher latitudes are mixed.

Causes of warming trends at higher latitudes have gained more widespread attention from researchers in the past few decades, but the idea that the Arctic would warm faster than the rest of the planet has been around for more than 100 years.

Therefore, we are working to be able to describe and predict the geophysical changes at high latitudes, more accurately, so that among other things they can be taken into account in the design and operation of future communications systems,» explains Per Høeg.

Bergmann's rule holds that populations of a species in colder climates — generally located at higher latitudes — have larger body sizes than populations in warmer climates, which are usually at lower latitudes.

There are signs that palms have already begun flourishing in untraditional settings at higher latitudes.

They found that about half of the change is a result of rising temperatures, particularly in areas at northern middle and high latitudes.

«Under scenarios of moderate warming, 1 or 2 degrees Celsius globally, crops in tropical regions will suffer in terms of yield, whereas at mid - to higher latitudes, they might benefit from a little bit of warming.

To date, research focusing on the connection between these two threats has primarily focused on the idea that species from lower latitudes, which typically experience warmer temperatures than those in higher latitude ecosystems, will perform better at higher latitudes as temperatures warm.

The Wave Glider, a long - duration ocean robot designed to operate in stormy conditions and high latitudes, can stay at sea for months patrolling for illegal fishing, listening for seismic events, collecting weather or ocean data and monitoring the environment.

And it's just what Irmis and Olsen would expect, since they believe prosauropods and other large dinosaurs thrived for 30 million years at high latitudes before managing to establish in the tropics after a mass extinction 201 million years ago.

«Ever since the lakes and seas were discovered, we've been wondering why they're concentrated at high northern latitudes,» said Elizabeth (Zibi) Turtle, a Cassini imaging team associate based at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, Md. «So, seeing that there's something special about the surface in this region is a big clue to help narrow down the possible explanations.»

They found that chewing and galling insects consumed a greater quantity of the native and non-native plants in the southern part of North America, while aphids were more prevalent at higher latitudes.

The warming at sea level is expected to reach 3 degrees Celsius by the year 2100, and possibly double that, or 6 degrees Celsius, at the highest mountain peaks in the low latitudes.

«This pattern weakens at higher latitudes suggesting that herbivores may be more important in limiting invasion success in the north,» he added.

Clouds of star - forming material at very high latitudes away from the galactic plane are rare and, in general, are not expected to form stars.

Sunsets occur more quickly near the equator than at higher latitudes, so the green flash is a shorter phenomenon in the tropics.

The beginning of the last glacial period was characterized in the Northern hemisphere by significant accumulation of snow at high latitudes and the formation of a huge polar ice sheet.

The extraordinary cold spell was probably strengthened and lengthened by the resulting increase in sea ice at high latitudes, as well as an unusually low number of sunspots in the middle of the 7th century.

It needs to be clarified here, that it is hypothetically possible to get more snowfall and snowpack in a globally warming world (at least for a while), due to increased precipitation (which is predicted in a warming world, esp for the higher latitudes) coming down as snow.

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al, (June, 2005): [During the Paleocene - Eocene thermal maximum (PETM), sea surface temperature (SST) rose by 5 Deg C in the tropics and as much as 9 Deg C at high latitudes, whereas bottom - waters temperatures increased 4 to 5 C.

... or is any AO / NAM trend driven partly by changes in storm track positions themselves being forced by other changes besides specifically AO / NAM (reduced static stability at higher latitudes, reduced lower tropospheric temp gradient, increased gradient in upper troposphere and lower stratosphere, increased humidity, variations in all those with latitude and longitude...)??

This result is in complete contradiction to greenhouse theory, which predicts strong warming, especially at high latitudes.

In addition to these multiple lines of empirical evidence which contradict the GCR warming theory, the galactic cosmic ray theory can not easily explain the cooling of the upper atmosphere, greater warming at night, or greater warming at higher latitudes.

Hadley circulation is the main mechanism for moving the surplus of energy at near the equator to high latitudes and plays a key role in the general circulation of the atmosphere.

At lower latitudes, permafrost is the glue that holds the world's highest mountains together by keeping rocks and soil frozen in place.

The most recent news making events are two: a challenge to the dates that have been assigned to Neanderthal remains closest to the time of their extinction; and a claim Neanderthals occupied a site in the Siberian far North, at much higher latitudes than previously thought possible.

In circunstances where these factors combine — planting trees as carbon offsets above the lcal tree line at high latitudes, modeling indicates that the radiative forcing impact can outwigh the benefits of carbon sequestration = cf